Increased visibility and management across your technology spend

Kion, the leading CloudOps platform unifying cloud governance, automation, and FinOps, is excited to announce a new capability: Custom Accounts. This enhancement brings even more flexibility to organizations managing complex cloud environments, enabling more accurate cost tracking and governance across all technology spend.

With Custom Accounts, customers can now represent and manage accounts that aren’t directly tied to a cloud service provider (CSP) but still play a role in financial accountability and understand the total cost of operating their business. This empowers organizations to define billing data sources outside of traditional cloud-native billing feeds, ensuring that all cloud spend is captured, categorized, and governed within Kion’s CloudOps platform.

Key Benefits:

• Unified Financial Visibility: Track and manage all accounts across CSPs, 3rd party SaaS tools, and on-prem data sources within Kion.
• Customizable Billing Models: Incorporate billing data from diverse sources for a more complete financial picture.
• Enhanced Cost Allocation: Ensure all cloud and related spend is tied to the right projects, OUs, and funding sources.
• Governance Beyond the Cloud: Extend FinOps best practices to these accounts with financial accountability through reporting, budgets, and enforcements.

This release ensures that Kion continues to evolve as the most complete CloudOps platform, helping customers achieve cost optimization, compliance, and governance across all aspects of their cloud operations.

FAQ

Q: What is being announced?

A: Kion is introducing Custom Accounts, a new feature that expands financial flexibility. They allow organizations to report on billing data that is not tied directly to cloud providers but still critical for overall financial management.

Q: Who is this for?

A: These features are designed for any organization managing multiple sources of technology spend. They are particularly valuable for regulated enterprises, government agencies, and cloud infrastructure/operations teams and FinOps practitioners who require more flexibility in how accounts and billing data are represented in Kion.

Q: How does it work?

A: Custom Accounts let users define accounts outside traditional CSPs, allowing billing data from other systems to flow into Kion. Together, they provide a single place to manage all spend within the Kion CloudOps platform.

Q: Will this work with my current Kion license?

A: Yes, this feature is available to all Kion customers on version 3.14.0 and beyond.

Q: What benefits will this feature unlock?

A: Customers gain a more complete financial picture across all environments, improve accountability by aligning all spend with proper budgeting and alerting, extending FinOps governance beyond traditional cloud providers.

Q: How does this compare to alternatives?

A: Unlike point solutions that only manage CSP-native data, Kion unifies all billing—cloud, SaaS, on-prem, and internal costs—into a single platform. This ensures consistent governance, visibility, and automation across the entire organization.

Q: Where can I learn more or try this out?

A: Learn more at kion.io or request a demo today to see how Kion can bring all your IT spend into one platform.